Rawson Marshall Thurber confirmed to direct ‘The Division’

By Express News Service
Filmmaker Rawson Marshall Thurber has changed David Leitch because the director for The Division, starring Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal. Thurber, recognized for motion pictures like Central Intelligence (2016), and Skyscraper (2018), may also pen the script with Ellen Shanman. Leitch not too long ago exited the challenge over scheduling points. However, the filmmaker will proceed to function a producer on the film.

Based on the best-selling online game, The Division is about in a near-future the place a pandemic virus is unfold by means of paper cash on Black Friday, decimating New York City and killing thousands and thousands. By Christmas, what’s left of society has descended into chaos. A bunch of civilians, skilled to function in catastrophic occasions, is activated in an try to save lots of who and what stays.

Chastain and Gyllenhaal will produce the film by means of their banners Freckle Films and Nine Stories, respectively, alongside Leitch and Kelly McCormick’s 87North Productions and Thurber’s Bad Version.Netflix acquired movie rights to the sport after the package deal was put available on the market again in summer season 2019 following a heated bidding struggle for the property. Thurber is at present engaged on the streamer’s upcoming motion function Red Notice, starring Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds.